If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.

I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy.

My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.

Different periods, different cultures - it's just the way my mind works. My music is that way as well. There's a foundation but the inspiration comes from everywhere. I've been influenced by so many things.

So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.

What a frequency What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn't imagine a music world without his voice.

I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me.